Using Google Earth to See Destruction

An anonymous reader writes "On Monday, an environmental advocacy group [Appalachian Voices] joined with Google to deliver a special interactive layer for Google Earth. This new layer will tell "the stories of over 470 mountains that have been destroyed from coal mining, and its impact on nearby ecosystems. Separately, the World Wildlife Fund has added the ability to visit its 150 project sites using Google Earth."

Comments

Re:the mountains are our future homes

[maglor_83]

No, they live under bridges. So you'll be the first to go!

Re:The real story

[sumdumass]

lol.. Someone mark this guy up as funny or the new supper funny mod "insightful"

That's where you're wrong....

[Lensar]

"You've obviously never seen the devastation caused by slurry "dams" breaking and flooding valleys with the muck. Or never had to deal with the dust generated by the mining or the pollution to the groundwater. I can guess you've never had to meet a coal truck on small country road at night in a blind curve."

You've obviously never seen Black Adder:

Rum: aah-ahhh! [strokes his hand] You have a woman's hand, milord! I'll wager these
dainty pinkies never weighed anchor in a storm.
Blackadder: Well, you're right there.
Rum: Ha ha ha. -Aah! Your skin milord. I'll wager it ne'er felt the lash of a cat 'o' nine tails,
been rubbed with salt, and then flayed off by a pirate chief to make fine stockings for his best
cabin boy.
Blackadder: How uncanny, I don't know how you do it, but you're right again.
Rum: Why should I let a stupid cockerel like you aboard me boat?
Blackadder: Perhaps for the money in my purse [holding it up]
Rum: Ha. -Aah! You have a woman's purse! [takes it from him and examines it daintily]
I'll wager that purse has never been used as a rowing-boat. I'll wager it's never had sixteen
shipwrecked mariners tossing in it.
Blackadder: Yes, right again, Rum. I must say when it comes to tales of courage I'm going to
have to keep my mouth shut.
Rum: Oh! You have a woman's mouth, milord! I'll wager that mouth never had to chew through
the side of a ship to escape the dreadful spindly killer fish.
Blackadder: I must say, when I came to see you, I had no idea I was goingt o have to eat your
ship as well as hire it. And since you're clearly as mad as a mongoose I'll bid you farewell
[gets up]
Rum: Aaah, courtiers to the Queen, you're nothing but lapdogs to a slip of a girl.
Blackadder: Better a "lapdog to a slip of a girl", than a... Git.
Rum: So you do have some spunk in you! Don't worry, laddie, I'll come, I'll come [holds out his
hand]
Blackadder: Well, let us set sail as soon as we can. [they shake] I will fetch my first mate,
and then I'll return as fast as my legs will carry me.
Rum: Ah! [pointing] You have a woman's legs, my lord! I'll wager those are legs that have
never been sliced clean off by a falling sail, and swept into the sea before your very eyes.
Blackadder: [crossly] Well, neither have yours.
Rum: That's where you're wrong

WWF WTF

[Aussie Osbourne]

The World Wildlife Fund is please to be working with Google to showcase its projects. The WWF wants to do a smackdown on those who want to harm the world's wildlife. They seek to put a choke hold on companies who negatively impact those habitats. And the WWF strives to clothesline any legislation that will further endanger the most innocent of creatures on this planet. Yeah, the wrong company won that name dispute.

awwwww c'mon mods, that might be offtopic but it's at least a little funny.

Play on words = NOT funny
"windoze is teh suxxors" = insightful


P.S windoze is teh suxxors

Using Google to destroy Earth???

[master_p]

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